Okay. The iphone is actually quite good.

There’s nothing I have to gain from promoting the iphone. I don’t own one, Apple do not send me free gifts for writing about their products (that would be lovely though – make mine a 3GS 32G please) and if you want an entry level camera, you’re more likely to buy a
35mm DSLR.

After today, I might have to get one. I knew already that people CAN take decent pictures on them – Jemima’s website Jebaloo, or London: mostly through an iphone can testify. Her blog proves the good ishot is not just a fluke, even if it takes an ex-professional photographer to coax more than motion blur from the very basic photo function. If you’re still sceptical, more proof positive exits in the form of 100 amazing iphone photos by people who are also obscenely good. But it was only when my Smena 8M packed up (okay, I forgot that you have to do EVERYTHING on the charming Soviet fucker and wrecked yet another film by exposing to light) and I didn’t have any 35mm film that I borrowed an iphone to do some test shots.

To my surprise, it picked up more than pixels. Even better, when the jpegs were dropped into photoshop, they didn’t look absolutely terrible…